Match List I with List II:

List I

List II

(A)

Donald Davie

(I)

Against Romanticism

(B)

Philip Larkin

(II)

Hurry on Down

(C)

Kingsley Amis

(III)

The Shires

(D)

John Wain

(IV)

The North Ship

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Question

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UGC NET Paper 2: English 13 Oct 2022 Shift 1

Answer 1

The correct answer is "(A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)".

Key Points

Donald Davie was a 20th-century English poet and critic. The Shires is a poem by Davie published in 1974.
Philip Larkin's The North Ship is a collection of poems published in 1945.
- The poem talks about the roughness of life which is compared with the journey of a ship on the sea.
Against Romanticism is a poem by Kingsley Amis that criticizes aesthetics in the romantic movement.
- It accuses the romantics of disregarding the essence of realism in depicting illusions.
Hurry on Down is a novel by John Wain.
- It is based on the angry young men theme, where the character is a young graduate trying to find self-identity in the changing postwar society.

Therefore, the correct answer is "option 4".